Marywell
Village · 390 residents
47Fair
Fair · better than 2 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Safety scores 76, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 16, below the typical 60
- Health scores 29, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Marywell
Map outline: Official settlement boundary (National Records of Scotland)
Is Marywell a good place to live?
Marywell scores 47/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (76).
It scores lowest on food & drink (16) and health (29).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Marywell in Scotland, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Marywell
Marywell doesn't really have a high street — it's a scatter of houses along a stretch of road, the kind of place you'd drive through and only notice if you were looking for it. With a population barely into three figures, this is a hamlet in the true sense: quiet, low-density, and built around houses rather than shops or services.
The housing picture is the clearest signal here. A grade A for housing paired with a median price a little under £198,000 puts Marywell well below the typical cost of living across Scotland, and prices have sat flat over the past year rather than moving in either direction. Council tax at band D roughly matches the national norm, so there's no hidden sting there. This is a place where your money buys more house and more space than the Scottish average, and where the property market simply isn't volatile — nothing to time, nothing to chase.
Safety and environment both grade strongly, and that pattern — solid across the board except for a noticeably weaker grade on nightlife — tells its own story. There's no pretending Marywell has an evening economy; the one green space recorded is small, just under a quarter of a hectare, which reads less as a park to visit and more as a patch of shared amenity woven into the everyday landscape. Life here isn't built around venues or entertainment strips. It's a place people come home to rather than go out in.
Connectivity is respectable rather than remarkable — full fibre reaches most but not all properties, enough for home working without it being a selling point. The median age, late thirties, sits younger than both the regional and national Scottish averages, which is a mild surprise for such a small, low-density hamlet — it suggests families or working-age households rather than a retirement-heavy population. Put together, Marywell suits someone who has already decided they want quiet over convenience: a settled, low-crime, spacious place to live, with the clear understanding that shops, nightlife, and bustle are things you'll drive to, not things you'll find on the doorstep.